Former State Ethics Official Meredith Trimble Joins Clark Campaign

Mike Clark, Congressional candidate for Connecticut’s Fifth District, announces that former Director of Education for the Connecticut Office of State Ethics (OSE), Meredith Trimble, has joined his campaign team as Communications Director.

Trimble was one of the first permanent employees in the ethics agency that was formed in 2005 in the wake of several corruption scandals.  She created the State’s ethics education program, which included the development of Connecticut’s first interactive, online ethics training.  During her tenure, Trimble instructed public officials, state employees, lobbyists and state contractors on the Codes of Ethics, reaching nearly 3,000 individuals in person annually.  She oversaw Connecticut’s first “Ethics Day,” as declared by Governor M. Jodi Rell in 2008, and developed a middle school civics curriculum that was shared with schools in the greater Hartford area.

At the OSE, Trimble handled all aspects of communications, writing and press relations, and will be managing similar tasks for the Clark campaign.

Prior to moving to Connecticut in 2005, Trimble worked in Washington, DC for the United States Federal Election Commission, where she advised Presidential-appointee Commissioners such as former Chief Counsel to the RNC, Michael Toner, and taught campaign finance law to federal candidates, political committees, foreign delegations and university groups. 

Of her new role, Trimble states, “I am honored and thrilled to be able to support a candidate with such integrity.  Having spent the last decade in watchdog agencies at the federal and state levels, Mike’s commitment to honesty and his track record of enforcing accountability as an FBI Special Agent spoke to me.  I also live in the Fifth District, and have seen firsthand the economic success of Farmington under Mike’s leadership as Town Council Chairman. He is definitely the right choice and the candidate most capable of reclaiming this seat for the Republican Party.”

Mike Clark notes, “I am pleased to welcome Meredith Trimble aboard:  she brings a unique depth of experience to the post and has a proven sense of integrity in line with my own.”